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留

留

See also: 畱 and 畄

Translingual

Han character

留 (radical 102 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹田 (HHW), four-corner 77602)

Derived characters

Descendants

  • Japanese: る

References

  • KangXi: page 761, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21808
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2537, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7559

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 留
alt. forms 畱
㽞
畄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卯 *mruːʔ
昴 *mruːʔ
泖 *mruːʔ
茆 *mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅 *m̥ʰruːs
窌 *m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊 *m·rɯːw
貿 *mlus
鄮 *mlus
劉 *m·ru
留 *m·ru, *m·rus
蒥 *m·ru
鶹 *m·ru
騮 *m·ru
榴 *m·ru
瑠 *ru
瘤 *m·ru, *m·rus
遛 *m·ru
鎦 *m·ru
飀 *m·ru
鰡 *m·ru
嵧 *m·ru
餾 *m·ru, *m·rus
瀏 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳 *m·ruʔ
珋 *m·ruʔ
罶 *m·ruʔ
嬼 *m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜 *m·rus
霤 *m·rus
廇 *m·rus
塯 *m·rus

Simplified from 畱 (戼 → 卯), from Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *m·ru, *m·rus) : phonetic 丣 ‎(OC *luʔ) + semantic 田 ‎(“field”) – to stay to tend the field.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 留 留
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 力求切 力救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨu/ /lɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liu/ /liuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /liəu/ /liəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /luw/ /luwH/
Li
Rong		 /liu/ /liuH/
Wang
Li		 /lĭəu/ /lĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ə̯u/ /li̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 liú liù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 留
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ru/
English stay, remain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 留 留
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8882 8905
Phonetic
component		 卯 卯
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 劉 溜
Old
Chinese		 /*m·ru/ /*m·rus/
Notes 說文丣聲誤，金文實卯聲

Definitions

留

  1. to stay
  2. to ask someone to stay
  3. to keep; to save; to retain; to maintain
  4. Short for 留學／留学 (liúxué, “to study abroad”).
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    把頭髮留到落腰 [Cantonese, trad.]
    把头发留到落腰 [Cantonese, simp.]
    baa2 tau4 faat3lau4 dou3 lok6 jiu1 [Jyutping]
    have one's hair grow to waist-length

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

留

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

留 • ‎(ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유)

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Vietnamese

Han character

留 (lưu)

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